Utilising Open Source Software Development for Effective EHR Development
MERRUKO, MIRJAN (2013)
2013
Tietojenkäsittelyoppi - Computer Science
Informaatiotieteiden yksikkö - School of Information Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2013-04-22
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https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uta-1-23475
https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:uta-1-23475
Tiivistelmä
Developing national Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has been a challenge for many countries. The costs in various cases have considerably increased and the projects are behind schedule without matching the aims. Moreover the users have not been very satisfied with those systems because of the problems that have appeared in the current developments. These have been attributed to the lack of attention on the social aspects of developing and adopting EHR systems.
Free/Libre/Open source software development on the other hand, is a software development process which has many social elements and follows a different approach to the evolution of systems than the one found in “traditional” processes.
After presenting an overview of open source software development and issues related to EHR systems this work supports the use of an open source software development process at the heart of EHR development efforts in order to enable a radically different approach.
This process places emphasis on collaboration, on the development of systems that are shared between the collaborating organisations, in encouraging the involvement of academia and volunteers to these projects, all of which could result in reduced development costs and in making the process more effective.
Asiasanat:Electronic Health Records, Open Source Software, Health Information Systems, Software Quality, Software Process Improvement
Free/Libre/Open source software development on the other hand, is a software development process which has many social elements and follows a different approach to the evolution of systems than the one found in “traditional” processes.
After presenting an overview of open source software development and issues related to EHR systems this work supports the use of an open source software development process at the heart of EHR development efforts in order to enable a radically different approach.
This process places emphasis on collaboration, on the development of systems that are shared between the collaborating organisations, in encouraging the involvement of academia and volunteers to these projects, all of which could result in reduced development costs and in making the process more effective.
Asiasanat:Electronic Health Records, Open Source Software, Health Information Systems, Software Quality, Software Process Improvement